another one?!?! what is it with republicans and getting caught soliciting gay, toe-tapping, bathroom sex?

Another Republican elected official– a pal of David Diapers Vitter no less– caught toe-tappin’ in the boys room! And he wants wanted to be a state senator too! Yesterday’s Times-Picayune painted another dismal picture of another Republican pervert who trawls from public restroom to public restroom looking for… love? Well, looking for something. Joey DiFatta is the chairman of St. Bernard Parish Council and a prominent Republican leader (until 2004 on the GOP state party Executive Committee). He just withdrew from his state senate race, after his arrests for lewd behavior in a public restroom were made public. Read more…

From the Times-Picayune article it appears DiFatta may have been Larry “Super Tuber” Craig’s mentor:

The report said DiFatta slid his foot into the deputy’s stall and tapped the deputy’s foot. In the report, Conley noted that such activity is common among men to indicate a willingness to participate in sex.

The deputy inside the stall, Detective Wayne Couvillion, responded by tapping his foot, and DiFatta reached under the partition and began to rub the deputy’s leg, the report states.

The detective asked DiFatta, “What do you want?” according to the report, and he replied, “I want to play with you.”

old man stevens throws a nutty at cnn's dana bash

first off, something of substance actually happened in the situation room.  now, if that wasn't news enough, what happened was sen. ted "bridge-to-nowhere, the internet is a series of tubes" stevens got a little, um, crazy with reporter dana bash.  stevens, the far-too-long-time alaska republican, had his house raided recently over suspected shady dealing he had with an alaskan oil company.  he had been avoiding reporters all day, but ms. bash caught him in a stairwell...and this followed:

SEN. TED STEVENS ®, ALASKA: I put out a statement and I’m not saying anything to anybody beyond that statement.

BASH: Can you say, sir, why the federal agents went to your House or what they took?

STEVENS: Can you understand English? That’s the only statement I’m going to make.

BASH: I do understand that sir, but obviously this is a very important issue, when federal agents and IRS agents come to the home of a U.S. senator.

STEVENS: I understand you’re recording this, but I told you again I made the statement. It’s issued, that’s what my lawyers told me to say, and that’s all I’m going to say.

dana bash can understand english just fine, senator, but i think she's having a harder time understanding how you are still in office.

cause they can only win if they cheat

like we still needed any proof...
dateline: tallahassee
Internal city memos show the issue of Republican "vote caging" efforts in Jacksonville's African-American neighborhoods was discussed in the weeks before the 2004 election, contradicting recent claims by former Duval County Republican leader Mike Hightower - the Bush-Cheney campaign's local chairman at the time.

"Caging" is a longtime voter suppression practice by which political parties collect undeliverable or unreturned mail and use it to develop "challenge lists" on Election Day.

The contradiction comes to light as the U.S. Justice Department continues to consider a June 18 request from two U.S. senators for an investigation into potential illegal voter suppression tactics in Duval County three years ago. A department spokeswoman said last week that the request is still being reviewed.

all this talk of caging makes me think of another person in the news: scooter libby...and a famous passage from his novel, the apprentice:

At age ten the madam put the child in a cage with a bear trained to couple with young girls so the girls would be frigid and not fall in love with their patrons. They fed her through the bars and aroused the bear with a stick when it seemed to lose interest. Groups of men paid to watch.

the president may make scooter's crimes vanish, but this book and its crimes are unpardonable.

in case you don’t recall how many times gonzo said “i don't recall”

i'm glad someone was keeping track...i lost count after about 15

gonzalez testimony recap

of all the comments and news and shumertastic coverage of the gonzalez kabobing yesterday in the senate, my favorite was a comment made by cnn's suzanne malveaux:



"One prominent Republican describing the testimony this way, as 'clubbing a baby seal.'"

rove and subpoena...go together like peanut butter and fluff

it has finally happened, turd blossom himself is set to be forced to testify, in public, under oath, before congress on his role in the firings of gonzo's us attorneys. so kudos to congress for, ya know, actually doing something, especailly after the crappy deal that fred fielding (the president's white house counsel) offered them. moreover, you know you're in trouble mr. president when you've called fred fielding in for help. (note: mr. fielding was a deputy white counsel under another president during a scandal. yep, you guessed it, nixon and watergate).

not like rove testifying will actually happen, but the idea of rove and miers before a limelight-hogging committee is kinda nice. anywho, the president will surely cite executive privilege (cause they were private conversations) as a way out of this one, and it will all get thrown into the dc circuit court where another recently installed us attorney will have to decide to convene a grand jury on contempt of congress charges for rove and company.

ya know, funny story: another president did this same thing to prevent his aides from testifying, and he used the same reason. maybe the president should ask mr. nixon how that one turned out before going down that particular calle de watergate.

anyway, you can read more about it in this wonderfully titled british piece on the approved subpoenas: Bush aides called to testify over prosecutor sackings.

any bets on how long 'til the brits are writing about gonzo getting sacked? i've got friday the 30th of this month in the sacking pool...this is the real march madness, baby.